Pencil-calendar.



c. M. MYERS & '1. A. TERHORS'T.

PEN6H.CALENDA&

APPLICATION FILED JAN- 19, 1914.

1,137,273. Patented Apr; 27, 1915.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 2'7, 1915.

Application filed January 19, 1914. Serial No. 812,932.

United States of America, residing at Glenfield, and 2310 Websteravenue, Pittsburgh, respectively, in the county of Allegheny and Stateof Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful. ImprovementsinPencil-Calendars, of which the following is a specification.

I Our present invention relates to improvements in pencil calendars, andis designed particularly to provide a more facile, economical, andeflicient device of this character than has been heretofore obtainablein the market.- In most of the so-called pencil calendars, a fixed partand a relatively movable part are employed in connection with a paper orsimilar flexible strip having printed thereon the calendar, but numerousobjectionable features have stood in the way of success for thesedevices. In the present invention we have eliminated undesirablefeatures and provided a device which is simple in construction andoperation, has its calendar strip entirely inclosed within the shieldor.

casing for protection, and requires only a weekly adjustment.

The invention resides essentially in the novel combination andarrangement of parts as hereinafter set forth and claimed.

in the accompanying drawings we have illustrated one complete exampleand a modification thereof, constructed according to the best mode wehave so far devised for the practical application of the principles ofour invention.

in the drawings Figure 1 is a side elevation of an embodiment of ourinvention,

showing the calendar device attached to a lead pencil. Fig. 2 is avertical central sectional view of the device of Fig. 1 disclosing theinterior of the structure. Fig. 3 is an enlarged detached elevation ofthe rotary casing or shield. Fig. 4 is a similar view of a the interiorfixed sleeve.

Fig. 5 is a transverse sectional view, enlarged, at line 1-1 Fig. 2,showing by the arrow the direction of movement of the rotary casing, tosuccessively expose weekly calendar readings.

Fig. 6 shows the monthly strip withdrawn from the device, ready eitherto be torn from the roll if both sides of it have been used, or, if onlyone side has been used, to be again drawn into the casing to be againexposed. Fig. 7 shows by the arrow the direction of rotation of thecasing after the strip has been drawn in from Fig. 6. Fig. 8 shows thestrip of paper or other suitable material upon which the dates of thecalendar months are printed, alternately on each side, the roll beingdetached from the device. Fig. 9 shows a modification of the calendar hepreferred embodiment of the device comprises the fixed sleeve 1 and theouter rotatable casing 2, each cylindrical in cross section andconsisting of suitable metal or other material. The fixed member of thedevice is formed with threads 3 near -its lower end and these areadapted to incase the upper end of a lead pencil 4 or other device.Directly above the threaded portion of the sleeve an inner annular ring5 is provided as a stop for the upper. end of the pencil, and a suitabledistance above this inner r1ng, an outer ring or rib 6 is provided as astop for the rotary casing 2. A narrow slit or slot 7 is cut in thesleeve and this slit extends to the upper edge of the sleeve, as seenclearly in Fig. 4. The rotary casing 2 has a threaded portion 8 for arubber 9, and a slot 10, with closed ends, extends a suitable distancealong the wall of the casing. Adjacent the slot the letters S M T W T FS are impressed in has relief in the metal of the casing being theinitial letters of the days of the week, as will of course beunderstood. The casing or sleeve 2 is of a diameter greater than thefixed sleeve 1 suficient to permit the inclosure, between'the sleeves,of the paper strip 11 or rather one section 12 of the strip, and thepresence of the paper insures a frictional contact between the twosleeves to prevent accidental rotary movement of the outer casing 1. Thepaper strip 11 is formed in the shape of a roll as in Fig. 8 and hasprinted thereon, alternately on each side, the months of the year. InFig. 8 it will be seen that the upper face of theend of the strip orsection 12 has the days of the month of January printed thereon, withthe January abbreviation repeated at the left end of the five weeklines. The opposite side of this same section 12' has printed thereonthe calendar month of February, as indicated in dotted lines.

In operation, the roll is placed within the inner or fixed sleeve 1, theend of the strip,

or section being passed through the slit 7 and the section 12 which isas long as the circumference of the outer face of the fixed member, iswrapped thereabout, exposing the January side of the section. The rotarysleeve is now slipped over the end of the fixed sleeve and-made toincase the strip or section of strip wrapped about the fixed member, itbeing understood that the re mainder of the strip or roll is inside thefixed member. The rotary sleeve is held or retained on the fixed memberby friction, but it can be rotated so that the slot 11 will expose thefirst line Jan. 1-23 of the section. After the 3rd of January the casingis rotated to expose another line, and so on until the five successivelines of January have been exposed through the slot 11. The casing isnow taken off and the section 12 is wrapped about the fixed sleeve withthe Feb ruary or reverse side exposed. The rotary casing is againslipped on the fixed member, and the casing is rotated in the directionindicated in Fig. 7 Thus it will be seen that the dates are adjustedeach week, the month section is reversed and torn ofi alternately, andthe strip may be of suitable length, preferably to' accommodate twoyears of months.

In Fig. 9 the strip or roll 13 is provided with sections 1d havingthereon the date,

day, and month, and when this form is used the day abbreviations S M,etc., are omitted. This form is acceptable and preferable in someinstances, and we contemplate using it when desired.

Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim as new anddesire to secure by Letters Patent is The combination in a pencilcalendar with a fixed slitted sleeve open at one end and a removableslotted outer casing free to rotate forwardly and reversely thereon, ofa reversible, dispensable rolled strip in the sleeve having its endpassed through and looselywrapped once around the sleeve and infrictional contact with the outer casing, and said strip having thesuccessive calendar months printed upon its sides, whereby the casingmay be revolved to disclose a calendar month, then be reversely revolvedto reverse and wrap the strip upon the sleeve and successively disclosethe dates of the calendar month on the reverse side of the strip.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of twowitnesses.

CURTIS M. MYERS. JOSEPH A. TERHORST.

Witnesses:

W. A. HIRTLE, R. D. GIBSON.

